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The Girl from Nongrim Hills

The Girl from Nongrim Hills
  • Author(s): Ankush Saikia
  • Location(s): Shillong
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Bok, a guitar player with a Shillong band, has a lot on his mind. His elder brother Kitdor has lost 50 lakh rupees on a trip to Nagaland to purchase arms for a group of militants. Kitdor is given...

Boats on Land

Boats on Land
  • Author(s): Janice Pariat
  • Location(s): Shillong, North East India
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

Boats on Land is a unique way of looking at India’s northeast and its people against a larger historical canvas—the early days of the British Raj, the World Wars, conversions to Christianity, and the missionaries. This is a world...

Funeral Nights

Funeral Nights
  • Author(s): Nongkynrih Kynpham Sing
  • Location(s): Meghalaya
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A group of friends from Shillong journey to a remote part of West Khasi Hills to witness Ka Phor Sorat, the feast of the dead, a unique six-day-long funeral ceremony of the Lyngngams, a Khasi sub-tribe. It may well...

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